Choneziphius

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Miocene

| image = Choneziphius planirostris.jpg

| image_caption = Choneziphius planirostris fossils

| taxon = Choneziphius

| authority = Duvernoy, 1851

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• †C. planirostris (Cuvier, 1824) [originally Ziphius] (type)
• †C. leidyi Bianucci, Miján, Lambert, Post, and Mateus, 2013

| synonyms =

Proroziphius Leidy, 1876

}}

File:Choneziphius planirostris 43.jpg

Choneziphius is an extinct genus of ziphiidae cetaceans, with two species known from the Miocene: C. planirostris and C. leidyi.Lambert, O. (2005). Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium) Geodiversitas 27(3): 443-497Bianucci G., Miján I, Lambert O., Post K. & Mateus O. 2013. — Bizarre fossil beaked whales(Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. Geodiversitas 35 (1): 105-153. Known from the shore of Belgium, Portugal and Spain.